Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-21
DAILY HERALD.
IMPROVEMENTS.
Progress in all. Industrial
Pursuits.
BUSINESS BOOM ALL AROUND
All Manner Of Industry In Fi0od
Tide Movement in all Parts
of the Land.

city and country about Los Angeles is on
a grand scale. 1t is only few days
since that the work of grading the cut
of for through trains of the California
Central railway was begun between the
RAYMOND Hotel aud Lamanda Park,
and the lots adjoining the line have
already been sold to the extent Of
$50, 600 by the Marengo Improvement
Company. The contractor, Mr.. l..
Banbury. was in the city yesterday and
reports rapid progress He has hun.
Jrsd men and twenty teams at work on
the line. He will probably be done
with his grading inside of thirty days.
1t is also contemplated to build
ANOTHER HOTEL
East of the Raymond, TO accommodate
the passengers that will throng the
RAYMOND and the South Pasadena Ho-
tel tall they produce an overflow.
The HERALD, sometime since, called
attention to the fact that the railway
builders were making railway center at
this place, and it seems that they are
carrying out their schemes most success.
fully. Nine various lines of railway will
soon have a terminus at this point, as
previously pointed out in the HERALD,
and about twenty-five lots have
been already engaged for shops
aud stores on the Marengo In
ErovcmeRt Company tract, east oi
the new opera house previously de-
scribed ia these colums. Side tracks are
being laid on Fair Oaks avanue and u
million of brick are being burned for
building purposes. The entire atmos-
phere is full of sounds of permanent
Improvement on all sides in this center
of industry.
Just across the Arroyo Seco, ap-
proachiDg the city, the beautiful Gar
vanzo settlement is booming at lively
rate. Among the improvements i'll that
suburb ara an elegant residence
for MIR. II. X. W. Bent, John
Mcclure, Mr.. Stevenson. Judge ID.
p. Hatch, G. T. Stamm, Mrs.
Mcclure and j. B. McChesney, be
sides another grocery store. There will
also be an addition Of fifty more rooms
TO the present hotel, and depot and
telegraph otfice established at the june.
ton of the short line and the present
route. Some of these residences will be
very ornamental, and will be connect
ing link between Los Angeles and Pasa.
deaa, making one city from the noun.
tains to the sea at Ballona harbor. The
expansion of Pasadena from the Mission
hills to the mountains, and the settle.
snent Of Garvanzo, Highland Park, High.
land View and East Los Angeles, fairly
make a settlement and a city fifteen
miles in length.
The freight depot on the leyee near
Second street will be ready to receive
freight in the latter part of next week
The Grant Brothers and Blair ant
Lewis on the completion of the Ballona
branch and the Riverside and Santa Ana
branch will grade the line brtween Lo'
Angeles and Santa Ana. The grade il
easy and the work Will be speedily ac
complished.
In the city a very important work j;
being prosecuted with great yigor anC
large expense.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
Is excavating into the side of the bluff
and widening the bench on which th'
present track is laid, and by riprappinl
the bank of the river will have secon'
track from the depot to the bridg
across the Los Angeles river, a worl
that is pressing necessity. la add
tion to the rock taken from the bluff tn
company is bringing marble from SlOve
mountain to make the riprap wall.
Above the work of the railway com
pany the City Water Company is a
work making a viaduct about thirty fee
above the present main, which is on
level with the railway. This will il
crease the water supply of the city AM
bring 10 q volume of water above tn
present supply for the central part @
the CITY. jim Mutually is foreman o
this important work, and is pushin
things. This double track and the ele
vation OF the water main are of great ed
vantage to the public.
The work on the approach to tn
Buena Vista bridge wos very slow yes
terday, and the people want to know
why they cannot have the work done a
once. Work on the Kuhrts stree
bridge is progressing finely.
There is also a popular cry for a leve
from the California Central reilwa,
bridge to the Kuhres street bridge, OF
the east side of the river. With thi
done the woodwork approache
TO three bridges can be done ava
with, and large amount of good Ian
of great commercial value can be mad
available inside the levee. At presen
the river channel is twice too wide, 5
that the debris fills up the center an
turMs away the stream to pastures me-
in the orchards and vineyards of th
city.
DUMMY ROAD.
The contract for grading the track {
the dummy road from East Los Angelo
TO Glendale has been let to Messr.
Blair L. Lewis, and the bridge buildin
will probably be awarded
w. Ledbetter. The time in which tn
road is to be graded is eight,
days. The line will begin at the juno
tion of Hof and Hayes streets and pro
ceed to Arroyo street, up Arroyo stree
to Wells street, on Wells to Columbi;
street, up Columbia street to Cypress
avenue, on Cypress avenue to city lin
ats. The bridge will be 500 feet lone
and broad enough on top to accommo
date two tracks as soon as necessary
The present contract is to grade TO the
townsite at Glendale, but it is under
stood that the track will pe extended tt
Burbanks without delay. with prob
able branch to Crescenta Canada to con
meet with the Yocum & Mundell dummy
road that is row proceeding into La
Canada.
CLOSED UP.
Over year ago the HERALD called at.
tention to the neglect of the Board OF
Supervisors to improve a roadway do.
mated to that body eight years ago for a
length of seven miles, and warned it
that the title would lapse, and that the
land would have to be bought by and by
for road purposes. The Board neglected
IL. and now the land has been sold at
$3.50 per acre, and no reservation has
L. for N rnad oo tf fha Do..I